In wary 5.5, the Nathan Wallpaper utility is now zapping *.png's, and of course, no good deed going unpunished, it also erases your current background. So you end up with the default light grey background, and 0 Kb for your favorite *.png.

I understand *.png's generally take more space than *.jpg's, but please, that's a decision for the user to make, not the developer. To whoever last fiddled with the Nathan Wallpaper script: make a public confession, and perhaps you'll be pardoned!

Moral of this story is: find and use an older version of "Nathan Wallpaper", not the current one. Older versions don't have this bug.

I remember I had such occurrence once, too. I think it is code in
/usr/sbin/background_reshape . Will have to look for it . It might have something to do with file name with spaces or some used binary ie jpegtopnm pamcut pnmcut and their libraries.

musher0,
Wary-5.5 seems not to have Nathan Wallpaper Setter installed by default.
It must be the wallpaper-setter by BK then, as I look into puppy_wary-5.5.sfs/usr/local/apps .

Will boot and check tomorrow or later today.

musher0 wrote:

and truly, I have other fish to fry. Wink

Hello, Karl.

Don't you like fish? It's Holy Week, a good Christian is supposed to be fasting!

Oh, I know wary uses the rigid pwallpaper to set up the backdrop of the screen.

Some users might not know this: If a user wants to choose any picture located anywhere on the computer, (s)he is better off using the built-in background setter in ROX-Filer. See how-to illustrations below.

BFN.

ROX-as-background-changer.jpg

Description

To activate the background setting option, click Options in a ROX-filer panel, go to "compatibilities", and un-tick "Pass all clicks..." You can re-set it to normal after you've changed the backdrop.

To actually change the backdrop this way, open any image folder, ri"ght click on background and click on "background image". A panel appears. Set the preferences, and slide your preferred image on it, and it's done.

I have found the blog of BK by using google : Nathan's Wallpaper Setter 0.6
that led here : Nathan Wallpaper Setter -update
and on ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/../pub/ibiblio/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-common/
there is a 0.6.1-1.pet plus a 0.5.6.pet .
/usr/local/bin/ppm shows two pets from the puppy-noarch repo in the Desktop part as
simple_wall-set-0.6-noarch
and
wallpaper-0.6.1-1
,
-noarch meaning no binaries but scripts and picts included .
Have dl the lupu-0.5.4.1.pet you mentioned and the three from Mik's thread,
diff -up them and there is not much of interest and apparently no binaries included,
probably a change from $IMAGE to $1 between 6.0 to 6.1 which might screw things if $1 gets passed to a function,

but have pet2tgz them all and tgz xzf them to diff them,
ran ./AppRun inside the 0.6.1- version directory and applied it on a pic dl from http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/pr2010013a/640_wallpaper and it worked for me,
have no widescreen monitor though to test correctly.
There are some mismatches still for sometimes filename variables get doublequotes and sometimes not to act correctly with :SPACE: 's ; the default /usr/sbin/pwallpaper at least does not support spaces .

So there are few "Latest" wallpaper setters around, would be somehow cool if you could at least roughly remember where you got them from.

About fish : I don't hate fish, but seldom eat it. Fish can be smoked or put into vinegar, too, though that was not that was Jesus liked bound to that cross .. but Simon of Cyrene was told to bear the cross behind him, one gospels says .. maybe he stepped onto the purple cloth , they fell down and somehow suddenly there was some other guy dying for him ..

This will create a "wallpaper" link in the right-click menu under jpg and png images. With this, you can go to any picture directory, make the pictures the biggest possible, and right-click on a picture and make it a "wallpaper" choice.

With these little links, you see a nice picture in any picture directory and you have the ability to make it a backdrop. This is actually more intuitive than the current offering, in my opinion.

extracted the version 0.6.1-1.pet in a sandbox,
opened the .jpg in mtpaint and saved as .png and .gz9.png (without compression and with compressionlevel9) ,
ran ./AppRun and it worked for me,
also on the /usr/share/backgrounds/wary_stark.png .
No truncations detected.

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